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Asher Hartman and the Puppets of Revolution
LOS ANGELES — Asher Hartman’s experimental Purple Electric Play! utilizes an eclectic range of dramatic forms including rock opera, puppets shows, vaudeville, and black light theater.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art & The Fabric Workshop and Museum Present a Joint Exhibition, 'Allora & Calzadilla: Intervals'
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When a Political Movement Becomes a Monument
Around the world, the aesthetic of revolt flows unabridged, immediate, and jittery, the revolution in any room. Which makes Maidan, Sergei Loznitsa’s unblinking and stirring documentary of last year’s Ukrainian protests that ended in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych seem like even more of a
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How Beast Jesus Saved a Spanish Town
Anyone who still doubts that internet memes can have an impact on the real world should pay a visit to the small town of Borja, in northeastern Spain. Thousands of tourists have been doing just that ever since local amateur art restorer Cecilia Giménez blessed us with Beast Jesus.
Art
A Long, Strange Group Show Trip
PARIS — Inside, at the Palais de Tokyo, is group show as inner wormhole. The metaphoric theme of this exhibition of videos, numinous wall works, and scenic installation art — curated by Jean de Loisy, Daria de Beauvais, and Katell Jaffrè — is the disturbing inner space of a trip.
Art
Getting to Know the Artisans Who Make Other People's Art
We don’t often see these people listed on press releases or wall placards, but it’s thanks to their work that we get to have meaningful aesthetic experiences.
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Meet Moiety, North Williamsburg's Newest Gallery
Has Williamsburg's supercharged gentrification cycle come full circle and spurred a new influx of galleries? How else to explain the opening of two new art galleries in the neighborhood in the last two months?
Comics
Holiday Baking with Art History
Perhaps we all need new cookie cutters.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, JR's eyes in #BlackLivesMatter protest, Republicans and torture, museums and big data, saving Wikipedia, the meaning of graffiti in ancient Rome, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Red
This week, attention returned to the red planet, where the robotic rover Curiosity sent back evidence of long-vanished rivers and lakes — and potentially life — on Mars.
Books
Making Muses: Dorothy Iannone's Erotic Art Was Inspired by Dieter Roth
Dorothy Iannone describes her trip to Reykjavík in 1967 as the “journey which seems to have made all other journeys possible.” It was there she met the artist Dieter Roth, with whom she swiftly fell in love and for whom she left her husband and a comfortable life in the United States.
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Some Follow-up Thoughts on Michael Mazur (1935–2009)
In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir, at the Boston University Art Gallery, John Stromberg opens his essay, “Michael Mazur: A Delicate Balance” with this sentence: “Michael Mazur’s path to his recent paintings based on Chinese art has bee